Also, Applegate was brilliant at taking something really familiar, and making it feel new and different. The themes of this book are very common in middle grade novels: unlikely friendships, unlocking your potential, and pushing through when things get difficult. But telling it this way made those themes feel fresh, fun, and unique.
Book Spotlight: The One and Only Ivan
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Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from her family, and she makes Ivan see their homeand his own artthrough new eyes. When Ruby arrives, change comes with her, and its up to Ivan to make it a change for the better.
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UNSHATTERED by Carol Decker and Stacey Nash
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I write, I read, I do crazy things for my family. Come join the chaos.
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But it was on the express reads shelf at my library, and Im a total sucker for the express reads (something about how I cant renew these books because so many people want to read them just draws me in every, single time I go to the library)
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Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows hes seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or the sound of leaves with color and a well-placed line.
–trying to get motivated to train for that
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Book Spotlight: The One and Only Ivan
The voice.Applegate gives Ivan this amazing voice, and found myself cheering for Ivan (and crying for him a few times as well.) Amazingly, Applegate somehow wrote this in a way that made me connect with a gorilla. That is talent, friends.
Newtimber:Fractured by Karen E. Hoover
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–reading in every spare second I can find.
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I dont even know why I picked this book up off the shelf at my library. First of all, its about animals, andI dont do well with animals. Second of all, its from the point of view of a gorilla, which also is not my thing.
Heres the blurb:Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all.
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–hanging out with my awesome husband
Oh yeah, unemployement ended a few weeks ago, folks!
This book is full of heart. I would recommend this book to pretty much anyone.
The Last Dance by Lonna Enox (Book Spotlight and Giveaway)